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Example sentences of "i stand [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field .
2	I stand in a five-pointed star position in the middle of the room while the doghandler runs his hands along my limbs .
3	I stand in a light mist of rain .
4	‘ I stand in a British book shop with my mouth agape .
5	I stand in the early darkness and watch as Crilly is bundled into the back of the red and white van and taken away , siren silent but the bright lights flashing .
6	When I stand in the direct path , say three yards away , I prevent projections of the sound from going any further , though this is a good position for myself to hear ‘ my sound ’ .
7	I stand before the pure white Host ,
8	I stood as the Green Party candidate in May 1988 and 1989 .
9	I stood over the other side of the road from it and watched .
10	I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain .
11	I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right .
12	I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror .
13	But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful .
14	I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled .
15	I stood on the round wall and wound the handle as fast as I could , but when the bucket was still just out of reach , the rope kept slipping so I could not reach the bucket .
16	When my holiday had the goodness to be over , I stood on the usual rush-hour bus and read a schoolboy 's comic strips over his shoulder .
17	I stood on the final tee with Ken Schofield and imagined the kind of pressure build-up the players were feeling .
18	As I stood on the tufted grass , surrounded by natural beauty , I felt as if I 'd come to another world
19	It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed .
20	I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road .
21	I stood at the front door for a long time being soaked by the rain .
22	I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne .
23	Oh , I stood outside the primary school this morning and spoke to the other mothers , and none of them want anything to do with it .
24	Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter .
25	For a while I stood by the shattered doorway , wondering what to do .
26	I stood by the open window and the dogs licked my hands as I listened .
27	I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop .
28	I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy .
29	I stood in the slanting sunlight , warm and yellow around me , the stench of burning flesh and grass on the wind , the smoke rising into the air from burrows and cadavers , grey and black , the sweet smell of leaking unburned petrol coming from the Flame-thrower where I 'd left it , and I breathed deeply .
30	I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it .